Carlson: White House Should Have Been Smearing Fitzgerald Months Ago
Carlson: White House Should Have Been Smearing Fitzgerald Months Ago
Tonight on MSNBC, Tucker Carlson shared his true disappointment with the White House response to the CIA leak scandal.
It’s not the dishonesty, or the months of stonewalling. It’s that the Bush administration didn’t start smearing the special prosecutor early enough:
I think politically [the Bush administration] did very much the wrong thing by saying nice things about Patrick Fitzgerald some months ago — “he’s a man of integrity,” “he’s a good guy,” “we have complete confidence he’s going do the right thing,” etc., etc. — making it now almost impossible for the White House, even on background, to attack the guy.
Full transcript below:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Do you think the President would be well-advised to go this route with Kay Bailey Hutchinson, to try and minimize the importance of some of these middle-level charges?
TUCKER CARLSON: He should have done that a long time ago. I think this White House made a tactical error — maybe not a moral error, maybe the White House did the right thing — but I think politically they did very much the wrong thing by saying nice things about Patrick Fitzgerald some months ago — “he’s a man of integrity,” “he’s a good guy,” “we have complete confidence he’s going do the right thing,” etc., etc. — making it now almost impossible for the White House, even on background, to attack the guy. And, who knows, we’ll find out in a couple of days, but it’s possible that attacks on him are warranted. Maybe he’s doing the wrong thing. But they can hardly say that at this point. So I don’t know what they do other than accept the resignations of those who are implicated in whatever he submits and sort of apologize and move on. But I think they should have at least kept the option open to attack him and I just don’t see they have that.
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fitzmas time!
October 24th, 2005 at 8:19 pmheadline: tucker carlson found strangled in alley… assailant used bow tie…
October 24th, 2005 at 8:33 pmWhile it will be months until we know the final results of Patrick Fitzgerald’s PlameGate investigation, there is one thing we can conclude with certainty. Finally, President George W. Bush is being punished for his “Politics of Payback”. After five years of savage and baseless attacks on the likes of Richard Clarke, General Eric Shinseki, Paul O’Neill, Jim Jeffords, and Richard Foster, the small, mean-spirited, venal and vengeful George W. Bush is paying the price…
For the full story, see:
“Blowback: Bush, Plame and the Politics of Payback.”
October 24th, 2005 at 8:41 pmIt is amazing how right and wrong can jump from side to side, back and forth, up and down, on any issue depending on one’s preconceived notions. What is the purpose of killing the messenger, so to speak? Fitz didn’t do the crime so it is not up to him to do the time. How can he be right or wrong in doing his job–he may or may not be right or wrong in his conclusions but that is after the fact? The bushco may be right or wrong in their past actions but smearing Fitz doesn’t change the facts. The time for bombastic rhetoric is at the conclusion of the trial when the defense attorneys know they have lost but want to add a few more inflated hours to the billing. The bushco is dead and just like all cowards they have to piss and moan all the way to the gallows. May their laments fall upon deaf ears and their days be spent reading the resumes of Ronnie and Fitz.
October 24th, 2005 at 8:43 pmCOUNT ONE: THE COMMON PLAN OR CONSPIRACY
(Charter, Article 6, especially 6 (a))
III. Statement of the Offense
All the defendants, with divers other persons, participated as leaders, organizers, instigators, or accomplices in the formulation or execution of a common plan or conspiracy to commit, or which involved the commission of, Crimes against Peace, War Crimes, and Crimes against Humanity, as defined in the Charter of this Tribunal, and, in accordance with the provisions of the Charter, are individually responsible for their own acts and for all acts committed by any persons in the execution of such plan or conspiracy. The common plan or conspiracy embraced the commission of Crimes against Peace, in that the defendants planned, prepared, initiated, and waged wars of aggression, which were also wars in violation of international treaties, agreements, or assurances.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/count1.htm
Regardless of what Fitzgerald does, we the people must take control of congress again so we can prosecute.
October 24th, 2005 at 8:44 pmfvcker carlson is an IDIOT and I mean that in the most classic and literal sense of the word.
I know this is a change in topic, but it’s typical of the lies of tucker and the other republican propaganda whores who pretend to be journalists. He was on the bill maher show the other night spouting about how canada spends more money on healthcare than we do and their system still sucks. This is an UTTER LIE. When Johns Hopkins did an international review of health care costs in 2000, they discovered that the United States spends 44 percent more on health care than Switzerland, the nation with the next highest per capita health care costs. Keep in mind that health care costs in this country has continued to rise since 2000 at a higher rate than international norms. And we still have 45 million uninsured americans!
According to the study, U.S. per capita health spending rose to $4,631 in 2000, which was an increase of 6.3 percent over the previous year. The U.S. level was 83 percent higher than Canada and 134 percent higher than the median of $1,983 in the other OECD member nations. The researchers found that the health care spending gap between the United States and other industrialized countries widened between 1990 and 2000, despite efforts to control spending with managed care.
The study also found that the United States spent 13 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GNP) on health care in 2000, which was considerably higher than other nations. In contrast, Switzerland spent 10.7 percent of its GNP on health care, while Canada spent 9.1 percent. The median spending level for the OECD nations was 8 percent. American private spending per capita on health care was $2,580, which was more than five times the OECD median of $451. In addition, the United States financed 56 percent of its health care from private sources, which was the greatest amount of the OECD countries.
And what do we get for this spending? The lowest life expectancy rate of any developed nation!
country year men women
USA 2002 74.5 79.9
UK 01-03 75.94 80.51
Germany 02-03 75.59 81.34
France 2002 75.8 83.0
Italy 2002 77.0 82.9
Sweden 2004 78.10 82.46
Japan 2004 78.64 85.59
So we pay more, and live shorter less healthy lives. So much for the ‘nanny state’ bogus nonense of the reicwhing morons!
October 24th, 2005 at 8:47 pmHey Tucker….plenty of time to smear the GJ. They will be the ones who decide if the evidence warrants it. I’m sure you and the rest of the Republican Criminal Syndicate aren’t above destroying another legal institution in your quest to bring a dictatorship to this country.
Tucker, like so many Bush apologists, are moral hypocrites. Conducting an 8 year $80MM taxpayer funded Inquisition against a popularly elected Democrat is OK…even if the charges are baseless. But when people are putting the Republican Party interests ahead of this country…like outing CIA networks, that’s grounds for smearing the whistleblowers and prosecutors. Why do these people hate America so much?
October 24th, 2005 at 8:53 pmCLOAK EXCLUSIVE!
by Sherman H. Skolnick, co-host
posted 10/24/05
BUSH TRYING TO SMASH INDICTMENTS!
The occupant and resident of the Oval Office is pulling out all stops to wreck pending indictments.
The not yet publicized Federal Grand Juries’ True Bills apparently deal with espionage and treason committed by George W. Bush and Richard Cheney. Also likewise reportedly named in the conspiracy charges as Federal Criminal Defendants or unindicted co-conspirators are numerous other White House and Pentagon biggies and reputed spies claiming to be mass media “journalists”.
Advised by Bush White House Counsel Harriet Miers, recently nominated by Bush to the U.S. Supreme Court, Bush is using the Federal Courts in the District of Columbia to contest the legal validity of the Grand Jury actions. Ostensibly contained in the federal court records but under a very stringent gag order are BUSH’S WILD CONTENTIONS to the judges that he is the victim of “a foreign-orchestrated coup” being perpetrated by his numerous Jewish-surname advisors and, as Bush accuses with generalities, jointly by “France” and “Israel”.
Bluntly put, like the Bush Family long-time pro-Nazi position, George W. Bush, like Adolf Hitler, is “playing the Jew Card”. This now done to evade deadly serious charges of espionage, treason, and falsely going to war against Iraq while using the White House Iraq Group as an instrument of unconstitutional treachery. The indictments mess may end up in the U.S. Supreme Court, dominated by proto-Fascist Justice Antonin Scalia, the Court in 2000 corruptly splitting 5 to 4 in Bush vs Gore.
Meanwhile, no one is reminding Bush that a G.O.P.-dominated High Court in 1974 nevertheless ruled against Nixon and caused his resignation shortly thereafter in the “White House Watergate Tape” ruckus.
IF Bush told the D.C. Courts now in secret emergency sessions the TRUTH—which he is NOT doing—he would say the group historically who foment Revolution for their Globalist agenda using ELITE JEWS, and others as a SCAPEGOAT FRONT, are the JESUITS and other POPISH PERSONS, a forbidden topic but not censored HERE.
More coming. Stay tuned.
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Mr. Skolnick’s numerous investigative reports are at http://www.skolnicksreport.com also visit magazine format and internet radio site, co-hosted by Lenny Bloom at http://www.cloakanddagger.de
Extensive archives also at http://www.rense.com/Datapages/skolnickdatapage.html
looks like cloak got hit by the busboyz again
October 24th, 2005 at 8:59 pmI’m not sure if Tucker was meerly trying to say what Bush Co should have done to save their asses. I don’t think Tucker is saying it would have been RIGHT, I just think he is saying that if the Bush Admin wanted to be sucsesfull in being evil and wrong… they should have smeared earler so they didn’t look like flip-floppers.
October 24th, 2005 at 9:01 pmWhat a wanker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 24th, 2005 at 9:11 pmpre-emptive smearing!!! at least these people are consistent…
October 24th, 2005 at 9:25 pmEh – you’re probably right. I wasn’t able to watch the video before when I commented, badwidth issue. But now I’ve seen it, and it looks more like you’re right. And RW, you said ‘wanker’! Interesting because I just watched Green Street Hooligans, so it made me think of that movie.. and what a wonderful movie it is. “F*ckin journos!!”
October 24th, 2005 at 9:25 pmI don’t see why Tucker says they they can’t smear Fitz now. Why not? Republicans don’t care and will buy it. We, the people, get the government we deserve..the harsh reality of being ignorant.
October 24th, 2005 at 9:46 pmI think we finally know the REAL definition of the “criminalization of politics”
October 24th, 2005 at 9:50 pmwhat a shame – they may be forced to take this guy seriously… it’s too late for the smear machine… Jesus, why does the religious right love these immoral people?
October 24th, 2005 at 9:57 pmBeing drunk with power with their *cough*mandate*cough*, BushCo thought they were untouchable. Now we’re seeing the bark of an animal that’s got something to hide.
October 24th, 2005 at 10:04 pmTucker just gave the whole game away. The actual charges mean nothing to this little piece of shit. The only important point is to beat the rap on what amounts high treason.
October 24th, 2005 at 10:15 pmHow bizarre have things gotten when the smear machine gears up to push back on the indictments that were necessitated by the smear machine’s prior activities?
Let me off this ride, I think I’m going to be sick….
Why isn’t this on St. Patrick’s Web site? Fitzgerald Issues Frog-Marching Guidelines
October 24th, 2005 at 10:16 pmI was FOR Fitz before I was against him…
October 24th, 2005 at 10:33 pmTucker has just proven that he is an ignorant and partisan hack.
October 24th, 2005 at 10:34 pmWhen he can’t argue against the crime, he will attack the prosecutor.
The conservative talking heads are all a disgusting gaggle of conceited, unethical, disingenuous, shills.
Did Tucker (he must be friends with lil’ scooter) ever have any credibility? Can’t remember ever watching this guy on TV and thinking anything but, “This guy is a total dweeb”.
October 24th, 2005 at 10:39 pmCarlson is a non-entity that NOBODY watches. Why do you give him all this attention?
October 24th, 2005 at 10:52 pm“Months ago” — Hey Tuck — Oct 11, 2005 is the day Neoconster-in-Chief W proclaimed the dignity of Mr Fitzgerald’s investigation. Perhaps the only truthful statement from W’s mouth in months, if not his entire failed life.
Peace,
October 24th, 2005 at 11:05 pmUL
[...] Too little, too late: White House Should Have Been Smearing Fitzgerald Months Ago [...]
October 24th, 2005 at 11:19 pmtucker carlson is a dweeb. he doesn’t even deserve capital letters at the beginning of his name. a real bow-tie bottom dweller. you know, rich spoiled kid with a story to tell – how stuffy! -Kevo
October 24th, 2005 at 11:28 pmIs tucker like 15 years old or what?
October 24th, 2005 at 11:53 pmTucker Carlson is just a wannabe neocon. He doesn’t have a clue about how to wipe his ass much less politics. Well, he does have a grasp on one thing. When someone disagrees with you as a repugnican, don’t discuss it, don’t rethink it, don’t improve on it. Just ridicule, smear, distort and otherwise try at all costs to discredit your detractor or opponents. Basic qualifications for the repugnican party.
I bet his bow tie is a clip-on.
October 25th, 2005 at 12:12 amJesus, why does the religious right love these immoral people?
Comment by Pete Bogs
Abortion and gay marriage.
October 25th, 2005 at 3:06 amtucker carlson is a vicious self centered tv whore – typically republican
October 25th, 2005 at 6:36 amThat dude seems a little hot under the collar. Oh boy!
October 25th, 2005 at 7:40 amThat Carlson guy’s a little funny. It would have been tactical, but not “immoral” to unjustifiably smear Fitzgerald? Fu*kin’ laughable! LOL! :)
October 25th, 2005 at 7:43 amLeave Tucker alone, he’s good for the Democrats.
October 25th, 2005 at 8:06 amThis is Young Republican spawn….. and the trolls call liberals pansies.
October 25th, 2005 at 8:23 amLet’s see, if I spin that tie round and round will Tuckitunder fly away?…OOOPS, too tight, no matter, he was a pencil neck to begin with.
Will somebody please, PLEASE, put some LSD in the Republican National Coffeemaker this morning?! Hey Ted, Manny, Cynthia, Lee, Siobhan, can any of you guys substitute psilocybin in the mushroom alfredo when the Republican Party goes to Olive Garden next Sunday afternoon?
These people need help. They are absolutely fucked up in the head. I think one really good trip would help them a lot. It’s obvious it wouldn’t hurt.
October 25th, 2005 at 8:24 amDoes anyone take tucker carlson seriously?
October 25th, 2005 at 9:01 amI mean, look at him, he could jump off the set
of msnb-crap and go right into the juggling at
the local circus.
Good thing he wears a bow tie. It distracts people from noticing he’s a frat boy with a bad haircut and a lisp.
October 25th, 2005 at 10:03 amtucker carlson is proof positive that abortion shoujld be the law of the land.
October 25th, 2005 at 10:42 am#40 – ROFLMAO! Somewhere in there is an idea for a master’s thesis.
October 25th, 2005 at 11:01 amRyan Neat (#7)
October 25th, 2005 at 11:38 amCarlson probably meant the amount the GOVERNMENT spends on healthcare, not the total cost that we all pay. That would be a typical weasel fact.
To paraphrase Jon Stewart, ‘He’s a dick.’ And a very tiny one at that.
October 25th, 2005 at 12:06 pmHe still has a TV show? I’m sorry, there are too many good informercials on at that hour!
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What’s the difference between Tucker Carlsson and a pile of shit?
A pile of shit wouldn’t be caught dead wearing a bowtie!
October 25th, 2005 at 1:07 pmTucker Carlson is an asshole
It’s bad enough that we’ve got a grown adult who wears a bow tie in public, but Tucker Carlson demonstrates just how big of an asshole he is by critiquing the Bush Administration for not smearing Patrick Fitzgerald sooner:
October 25th, 2005 at 1:16 pmhttp://www.peteduffyforcongress.com
October 25th, 2005 at 2:01 pm… Tuckered-Out Tucker is the male version of ” Cher ” in ” Clueless ” – except without any of Chers charm , warmth , or WIT ! And speaking of warmth , a Merry Fitzmas to one & all ! Let’s have another glass of eggnog , and settle back to watch the neocons roasting on a open fire – Ahhhh , that’s nice , isn’t it ??? … ;)
October 25th, 2005 at 4:44 pmAccording to dipshit Carlson based on his own words, one cannot be a poltician and be moral at the same time!! Maybe some one needs to bring this clip to on Stewerts attention.
October 25th, 2005 at 10:42 pmHere is what is going to happen:
ALL of the indicted traitors will request delays until after the midterm elections.
Immediately after the midterm elections, bush will issue preemptory pardons (A la Gerald Ford) for all traitors.
No current traitor will ever see a court of law, and will skate free secure in the knowledge that the so-called USA “republican” party is merely a cabal controlled by a failed wannabe state that exerts extraordinary control over repugnicans because that failed state can do nothing but blackmail traitorous USA citizens.
Not a single person hostile to the USA will ever have to answer a single question.
So the point is: EVERY PATRIOT should be screaming to all who would listen, and to all the repugnicans who are deaf to reality that to pardon traitors is an act of treason.
bush will commit treason and pardon traitors.
THAT IS TREASON!!!!!
If you ever want to claim with honesty that you are patriotic, You MUST fight against the upcoming bush traitor pardons.
October 26th, 2005 at 2:18 amWhere Are the Slimers?
Mark Kleiman wonders why the smear machine that attacked Joseph Wilson, Richard Clarke, and other prominent critics of the Bush administration hasn’t kicked into gear and started telling us about how Brent Scowcroft and Lawrence Wilkerson are ac…
October 26th, 2005 at 9:06 amI’m about the same age as Tucker Carlson and he wears a bow tie? ICK! I listen to rock and rap and he probably listens to Toby Keith and Pat Boone.
MSNBC still has Keith Olbermann. He is opposite O’Lielly and I turn on to him every once and awhile.
And he’s a better dresser than Tucker Carlson.
If MSNBC were wise enough to put another real journalist on the air, get Randi Rhodes or Rachel Maddow. Then, maybe, I’ll watch MSNBC a little more.
October 28th, 2005 at 4:17 pmTucker Carlson in a bow tie vs Matthews in a purple tie….the humanity! (next week- Carlson=boxers vs Matthews= Speedo)
November 6th, 2005 at 6:34 pmTucker is a wuss. He bounces from one network to the next, it’s gotta be blackmail. He is the least talented of the political hacks on the right. I expect nothing more than this type of garbage from him.
November 9th, 2005 at 8:31 pmTucker Carlson is a reichwing hack who doesn’t even recycle. He not only shops at WalMart but he never thinks globally and rarely acts locally…that bastard!! I feel like throwing my latte on him and giving him a good pinch!
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